hamlet

See also: Hamlet and HAMLET

English

Etymology

From Middle English hamlet, hamelet, a borrowing from Old French hamelet, diminutive of Old French hamel (Modern French hameau), in turn diminutive of Old French ham, of Germanic origin. Cognates include English home, Dutch heem, German Heim, Old English hām.

Noun

hamlet (plural hamlets)

1. A small village or a group of houses.
2. (Britain) A village that does not have its own church.
3. Any of the fish of the genus Hypoplectrus in the family Serranidae.

Hypernyms

• (small village): settlement

Translations

small village

• Armenian: շեն (hy) (šen), գյուղակ (hy) (gyułak)
• Basque: herrixka
• Bulgarian: селце n (selce)
• Catalan: poblet m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 村莊 (zh), 村庄 (zh) (cūnzhuāng), 小村 (xiǎocūn)

• Chukchi: нымным (nymnym)
• Czech: osada (cs) f, víska (cs) f, dědinka f, kolonie f
• Danish: landsby (da)
• Dutch: (boeren)gat n, gehucht (nl) n, negorij (nl), uithoek (nl)
• Esperanto: vilaĝeto
• Estonian: küla (et)
• Faroese: bygd f, smábygd f
• Finnish: pikkukylä (fi), kyläpahanen (fi)
• French: hameau (fr) m
• Galician: aldea (gl) f, lugar (gl) m
• Georgian: სოფელი (sopeli)
• German: Weiler (de) m, Dorf (de) n, (pejorative) Kaff (de) n

  Alemannic German: Wihr

• Greek: χωριουδάκι (el) n (chorioudáki)
• Hebrew: כפרון‎ m (kfarón)
• Hungarian: falucska (hu)
• Ido: vilajeto (io)
• Indonesian: kampung (id)
• Irish: gráig f
• Italian: casale (it) m, località (it) f, villaggio (it) m, frazione (it) f, borgata (it) f, borgo (it) m

• Japanese: (a small village) 村落 (sonraku); (a group of houses) 集落 (ja) (shūraku)
• Khmer: កូនភូមិ (koon pʰuumi’)
• Latin: vīcus (la) m, vīculus m,
• Latvian: sādža (lv) f, ciems m
• Macedonian: заселок m (zaselok), селце n (selce)
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: balley beg m
• Mirandese: aldé f
• Norwegian: landsby (no), grend (no)
• Occitan: masatge (oc)
• Persian: دهکده‎ (fa) (dehkade)
• Polish: przysiółek (pl) m, sioło (pl) n
• Portuguese: aldeia (pt) f
• Russian: дереву́шка (ru) f (derevúška), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor), сельцо́ (ru) n (selʹcó)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: zaseok m, naselje (sh) n, seoce (sh) n, zaselak (sh) m

• Slovene: vasica f, zaselek m
• Spanish: aldehuela f, caserío (es) m, aldea (es) f
• Swedish: by (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: పల్లెటూరు (te) (palleṭūru)
• Turkish: mezra (tr)
• Vietnamese: xóm (vi)
• Welsh: pentref bach m
• Yiddish: דערפֿל‎ n (derfl)

village without its own church

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 部落無教會的小村莊, 部落无教会的小村庄 (bùluò wú jiāohuì de xiǎo cūnzhuāng)

• Czech: vesnička (cs) f, dědina (cs) f
• Estonian: küla (et)
• Finnish: kylä (fi) (as opposed to kirkonkylä)
• French: hameau (fr) m
• Georgian: სოფელი (sopeli)

• Irish: gráig f
• Italian: casale (it) m
• Japanese: (used to describe such European villages) 小村 (こむら, komura)
• Russian: дере́вня (ru) f (derévnja), ху́тор (ru) m (xútor)
• Swedish: by (sv) c
• Telugu: పల్లె (te) (palle)

fish

• Finnish: Hypoplectrus
• German: Hamletbarsche
• Japanese: ハムレット (hamuretto)

• Lithuanian: vakos
• Swedish: hypoplectrus

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Old English: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Eltham, Lathem, Thelma, methal

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +‎ let (“colour”)

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter, definite plural hamletene)

1. skin colour, complexion

Han var mørk i hamleten. ― His skin colour was dark.

Synonyms

• hudfarge

References

• “hamlet” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From ham (“skin”) +‎ let (“colour”)

Noun

hamlet m (definite singular hamleten, indefinite plural hamleter or hamletar, definite plural hamletene or hamletane)

1. skin colour, complexion

Alternative forms

• hamlett

References

• “hamlet” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.